Problem with 4.80.7 rpm install.

[Glenn Steen]

On 3 June 2010 22:17, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> My system is CentOS 5. I was running MailScanner 4.80.4. In my
> configuration I have
>
> Run As User = postfix
> Run As Group = postfix
>
> I downloaded
> <http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/rpm/MailScanner-4.80.7-1.rpm.tar.gz>,
> unpacked it and ran the install.sh script as usual.
>
> MailScanner --lint
>
> ran normally, but when I ran
>
> service MailScanner restartms
>
> children died during initialization with
>
> Jun  3 12:35:56 sbh16 MailScanner[22147]: Cannot create temporary Work
> Dir /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/22147. Are the permissions and
> ownership of /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming correct?
>
> This would then spawn another child which would die the same way.
>
> It seems the install process (run as root) changed the owner of
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming from postfix to root.
>
> chown postfix /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/
>
> fixed the problem, but the owner shouldn't have been changed in the
> first place.
>
Thanks for the headup Mark!

Cheers
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